Indiana Pwns

The Indiana Pwns is a safe way to enable homebrew on a Wii without hardware modification. The Indiana Pwns is achieved by playing a hacked game save for LEGO Indiana Jones which executes a homebrew application from an external SD card. Examples of such homebrew .elf or .dol files can be found on the Homebrew applications page. The Indiana Pwns was created by Team Twiizers.

Kudos to “roto” for finding the original buffer overflow, and many thanks for doing lots of testing!

Step by step

(OPTIONAL) If you have an existing Indiana save. MOVE it to another SD CARD.

Copy the "private" directory from the Indiana Pwns download to the root of your SD card.

Take your homebrew and put it in the ROOT of your SD card as "boot.elf".

Put your SD card in your Wii and turn it on.

Go into Wii Options -> Data Management -> Save Data -> Wii.

Go to SD card and select the "Indiana Pwns" save that corresponds to your game region.NOTE: Some people are having problems with the Wii not "seeing" the save file on the SD card. If you are experiencing this, try setting the archive bit for the data.bin file. In Windows this can be either be done from the file's properties dialog (right click on it in Windows Explorer and check the box) or from the command line using "attrib +a <path to data.bin>". More info at #wiihelp on Efnet.

Copy the save to the Wii.

Boot LEGO Indiana Jones.

Load the saved game you just copied to the Wii.

When the game loads, you will be in Barnett College. Walk to the Art Room (through the Courtyard), approach the left character on the podium. When it zooms on him, choose the switch to option (two silhouettes, staggered, with an arrow pointing between them).

No. These tools merely change the container file format, it does not convert between GameCube/Wii code.

Does this work with the new v4.3 System Menu update?

Yes

What about our current saves?

There's no easy way to merge saves between files. Use the Indiana Pwns to install the Homebrew Channel, then copy your old savefile back into place. You probably don't want to merge your save anyway, Nintendo's M.O. of fixing these things is to simply delete the entire save when found.